HIDAKA PROFILE

RIEKO HIDAKA

Rieko Hidaka who works in the medium of traditional Japanese painting continues to make large scale monochrome paintings of the space we see when we look up to the sky through the tips of tree branches. Drawing upwards from the large trunk to the tip of the smallest branches and covering the whole surface or even exceeding it, Hidaka creates a strong contrast with the bright sky. Through the way these paintings are made we can see a very stoic side to Hidaka. But perhaps more than that, if we place ourselves in that space we can experience a quiet peace and sense of joy.

In 2001, in collaboration with Hidaka, Edition Works produced a series of eight large scale dry points entitled
"From the Space of Trees". Hidaka's reason for choosing the dry point technique was "the attraction of its directness of expression". In looking for the hardness of expression similar to that found in her drawings and paintings, the dry point technique was exactly what Hidaka was looking for.

The feeling of hardness of the needle in the drawn lines and, at the same time, the texture of the tree is conveyed directly by the feeling of resistance on the copper plate.

The dry points were printed with transparent white gampi paper (by chine colle) to further enhance the feeling of transparency of space.

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From the Space of Tree (English) 2001 8 drypoints

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Biography
1958 1983 1985 1995-96	Born in Tokyo, Japan Graduated from the Department of Japanese Painting, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University (BFA) Completed the course at the Graduate School of Art and Design, Musashino Art University (MFA) Studied in Germany under Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan

Solo Exhibitions
1985 1987 1989 1990 1993 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004	Miyuki Gallery, Tokyo Miyuki Gallery, Tokyo Hillside Gallery, Tokyo Galerie 16, Kyoto, Japan Kintetsu Department Store, Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan UCP Gallery Ueda, Tokyo Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Chofu City Culture Hall Tazukuri, Tokyo Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, L.A., U.S.A. Tomio Koyama Gallery, "From the Space of Trees " Tokyo Galerie 16 , "From the Space of Trees" Kyoto, Japan Art Kite Museum , Detmold, Germany Galerie 16, Kyoto, Japan Nakasatsunai Art Village, Northland Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions
1990 1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1998-99 1999 2001 2002 2003 2005	"Triangulation of Modernism Part 5", Gallery Furukawa, Tokyo "Contemporary Nihonga 11th Yamatane Museum of Art Prize Exhibition", Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo "Being Mad under the Trees", Miho Akioka, Takashi Inagaki, Rieko Hidaka, Galerie 16, Kyoto, Japan "Art Today '93", Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan "Beyond the "Nihonga" - An Aspect of Contemporary Japanese Paintings", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo "Japanese Culture : The Fifty Postwar Years", Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Fukuoaka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoaka, Japan "Inga Beyer + Rieko Hidaka", Loft, Cologne, Germany "VOCA '97", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo "Final '98 - on the Wall -", Galerie 16, Kyoto, Japan "Taste and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990s", National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, The Philippines "Art Document 1999 in Kanaz - From Asian Forest", Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan "Visionen von den Urlandschaften", Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan "Art in Flux VII: Beyond & Around the Visual Perception - Paintings of Hidaka Rieko & Mitsushima Takayuki ", Fukuoaka Art Museum, Fukoaka, Japan "ikiro-be alive - Contemporary Art from Japan - 1980 until now", Kroeller-Mueller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands "Exhibition of New Acquisitions + Contemporary Paintings", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art "Here is the Museum, the scape collaborated with our collection, artists and you", Shizuoaka Prefectural Museum of Art,Shizuoaka "PAINTING IN OUR TIME", The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum,Niigata, Japan "KOMOREBI", Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibarai, Japan "Masterpieces in CAMK selection - Today's Japanese Traditional Painting, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan "Over the Nature ", Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo "CHIKAKU", Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Selected Public Collections
	The National Museum of Art, Osaka Kushiro Art Museum Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art The University of Tokyo, Komaba Library Fukuoaka Art Museum The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art / The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Art Tower Mito Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Main Galleries
	Galerie 16, Kyoto Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo



Distance from the Sky I　 2002　240X240cm　pigmennt on paper Collection: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art photo：Yoshitaka Uchida	Distance from the Sky II　 2002　240X240cm　pigmennt on paper Collection: The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art / The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum photo：Yoshitaka Uchida